Book geeks and students should find this iPhone App pretty attractive.
Use Quick Cite to photograph a bar code on a book and you get the book’s bibliographic information identified and sent to your email address.
Just the thing if you’re in a book store (if they all don’t close) or a library and want to get a quick copy of book’s details for later reference. Or if you’re a student and hate typing up dozens of bibliographic entries.
It works.
$1.19 at the Australian app store.
HT to Justin Taylor:
Bibliography work just got a whole lot easier:
A new smartphone application takes most of the grunt work out of citing books in scholarly papers.
Quick Cite, which costs 99 cents and is available for both iPhones and Android-based phones, uses the camera on a smartphone to scan the bar code on the back of a book. It then e-mails you a bibliography-ready citation in one of four popular styles—APA, MLA, Chicago, or IEEE.
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